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Catching Crooks With Salt

Salty sweat may leave trace fingerprints on metal

By Sam Barrett Posted 09.05.2008 at 2:40 pm 12 Comments

A new crime-fighting technique could make avoiding capture more difficult for even the most fiendish gunsels.

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Life on Mars, Simulated
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Lithium-Polymer Car Batteries. The LHC Restart. TV Goes All Digital. Ah, what the near-future holds. Here, we give you a peek at what promises to be a revelatory year of science.

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